Highways Maintenance Skilled Operative Apprentice - Level 2 - Lincolnshire 2024 - Balfour Beatty
- Job number: EC00365
- Career area: Apprentice
- Country: UK
- Location: UK, East Midlands, Lincoln
- Contract type: Apprentice
About the role
Are you looking to start your career after your studies? Our Early Careers programme gives you the opportunity to challenge yourself and be part of the solution to make the world work better.
The Early Careers programme we offer has been carefully developed by the business so that you will become the best professional you can be. We want to bring out the best of your abilities whilst giving you a deep insight into the world of Infrastructure Engineering, so then you can be the catalyst for change.
You'll learn. You'll gain skills. You'll explore our business and our sectors, having real control over where you go and what you experience next. And you'll do it all as part of a busy community of Apprentices, Year in Industry students and Graduates.
Our application window for Apprentices is open now until midnight on 19 April 2024.
What you'll be doing
- Deliver highways works efficiently and safely for the local area
- Liaise with members of the client team and the public to ensure that the clients' needs are met
- Work as part of a team to deliver reactive, emergency, and other types of highway work in all weathers
- Be responsible for onsite Health and Safety at all times
- Routine and reactive repairs, emergency call out and winter maintenance (gritting).
- Out of Hours Standby (on a rota basis)
Who we're looking for
- You will have a keen interest in highways maintenance.
- You will be focused on delivering high quality highway work, safely and to budget
- An understanding of the importance of health and safety is essential
- Have a flexible approach to your working day and be willing to work out of hours when required is essential for this role
- Ideally, hold a full UK driving licence at the time of joining
- Eligibility to work and live in the UK at the time of joining
- Pass pre-employment medical which will include a Drug & Alcohol test
Our recruitment journey
To ensure you feel prepared and informed at each stage of our recruitment journey, we wanted to share with you our key stages;
Stage one: getting to know you
Our team will review applications and if shortlisted for a role with us, you will be contacted by one of our amazing recruiters. They will be keen to hear about your interests and enthusiasm to join Balfour Beatty and will talk you through the next steps.
Stage two: In-person or online interview
This is the final stage of our recruitment journey and is where we get to meet you in person, either in one of our offices, or online via Teams.
For us, the most exciting part is we love hearing all about you. We also want to ensure you are getting the most out of your recruitment journey, so it's important you are curious and ask us questions too!
Join us!
We are more than construction. Every day, our projects change the way the world looks and improve the way it works. And because we do more, you will too! So don't hesitate, our application window is open until midnight on 19 April 2024. If you think you can make a difference here at Balfour Beatty then apply today!
To hear more about our programme, Balfour Beatty | Job Detail | Balfour Beatty (balfourbeattycareers.com)
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone D&I Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. Our Smart Working policy enables employees to work flexibly where operationally possible, and we would be happy to explore this with you.
To find out more about our Value Everyone D&I Strategy and Action Plan, visit our website athttps://www.balfourbeatty.com/how-we-work/diversity-and-inclusion/
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with disabled people and people with long-term health conditions, to remove barriers to them obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
Further information about Disability Confident can be found athttps://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk
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